1.   Tainted meat and poultry cause thousands of illnesses and hundreds of deaths each year.

2.   Britain said recently that its epidemic may have started with pig swill being contaminated by illegally imported tainted meat.

3.   But because the Soviet government covered up the outbreak, saying tainted meat was the cause of deaths, epidemiologists did not examine patients.

4.   Cookman examines the theory that the explorers died from eating tainted canned meat.

5.   Evidence for the anthrax epidemic, on the other hand, proved more and more abundant, despite Soviet attempts to blame the outbreak on black-market tainted meat.

6.   Even if the tainted meat had been kept in cold storage overnight at the plant, it still would be infected in the morning.

7.   Everyone has heard of tainted meat.

8.   Glanders may also have been spread by eating tainted meat, Marr said.

9.   Hudson and the U.S. Agriculture Department are still trying to determine how many retail outlets were supplied with the tainted meat, said USDA spokeswoman Jacque Knight.

10.   Hudson and the USDA are still trying to determine how many retail outlets were supplied with the tainted meat, said USDA spokeswoman Knight.